RECYCLING OF VIEW COMPONENTS IN A USER INTERFACE

Architecture that facilitates the recycling of view components (e.g., item controls, visual containers, etc.) in a user interface rather than recreating the view components when needed again in response to a view change such as a scrolling operation or other user navigation operation such as a paging control. In the context of a datagrid, the datagrid can now be more performant when scrolling through a large number of rows. The architecture includes a recycling component that recycles the visual containers by collecting the visual containers when rows are scrolled off the view, and reusing the visual containers with different data when rows are scrolled back into the view. Thus, all the containers stay the same-new data is simply applied to the recycled container.